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Oracle Could Reap $1 Million For Sun.com Domain

Posted by timothy on from the inherit-the-sun-reap-the-whirlwind dept.

joabj writes "Last week, Oracle announced that it is decommissioning the Sun.com site, which it acquired as part of the $7 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems. So what will Oracle do with the domain name, which is the 12th oldest .com site on the Internet? Domain brokers speculate Oracle could sell it for $1 million or more, if it chose to do so."

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  1. Re:Worth more to keep it by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed. I can't remember how many roomfuls of students I told to go to "java.sun.com" for all things Java.

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